Gaston was approached at Lord Dargan's house by the Premier himself.

It was suggested that he should stand for a constituency in the Conservative interest.

Lord Faramond, himself picturesque, acute, with a keen knowledge of character and a taste for originality, saw material for a useful supporter--fearless, independent, with a gift for saying ironical things, and some primitive and fundamental principles well digested.
Gaston, smiling, said that he would only be a buffalo fretting on a chain.
Lord Faramond replied: "And why the chain ?" He followed this up by saying: "It is but a case of playing lion-tamer down there.

Have one little gift all your own, know when to impose it, and you have the pleasure of feeling that your fingers move a great machine, the greatest in the world--yes the very greatest.

There is Little Grapnel just vacant: the faithful Glynn is gone.